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Masrour Barzani should be worried. Iraqi Kurdistan is neither as secure nor stable as the regional prime minister and heir apparent of the powerful...
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Masrour Barzani should be worried. Iraqi Kurdistan is neither as secure nor stable as the regional prime minister and heir apparent of the powerful...
Masoud Barzani, Kurdistan Democratic Party leader and former president of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, is 76 years old, the same age as his father...
Hoshyar Zebari, Masoud Barzani’s uncle and Iraq’s former finance and foreign minister, arrived in Washington last week. After a couple of perfunctory roundtables at...
Iraqi Kurdish politics are a Middle Eastern Hunger Games spread across generations: Families form alliances to defeat opponents, but then turn against each other...
It has now been several weeks since an internal dispute within the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK)—one of Iraqi Kurdistan’s two main political parties—erupted...
Factional divisions not only between but also within Iraqi Kurdistan’s ruling families are not new: One of the reasons why Iraqi Kurds have failed...
Iraqi Kurdistan pitches itself as a US ally. When its interests coincide with the United States, it can be a genuine partner. Too often,...
Masoud Barzani, Iraqi Kurdistan’s long-time president, handed the reins of power to eldest son Masrour Barzani in 2019 when he shifted nephew Nechirvan to...